| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Location | Berkeley, California, United States |
| Introduction | I’m a freshman at Cal and a prospective English and Psychology major. These two subjects, however, cannot contain my curiosity. I am a student of the Humanities in the most literal sense: I want to learn about people. Other than being the ideal location for people watching (our students and locals run the gamut of behaviors and appearances), Cal has provided me with an environment in which work and play are not mutually exclusive. I volunteer with “Start with a Story” (a program run through the Alameda County Library that involves distributing and reading books to children whose parents are in jail) and am currently training to tutor inmates through “Bears Beyond Bars.” I also volunteer at KALX (Cal’s radio station) and am a member of RCSA (the Regents and Chancellor’s Scholarship Association). In fall, I rushed Chi Omega, the nation’s largest women’s organization (we’re bigger than the Girl Scouts). My experience at Cal has been blog-worthy in more ways than I can conceive (even after taking Astronomy with Alex Filippenko I find infinity incomprehensible). This blog is my attempt to document my whirlwind romance with the Berkeley Experience. |
| Interests | reading, writing, analyzing, over analyzing, observing and understanding humans in their natural habitat, music, expression, film, nature, community service, friendship, traveling (my favorite city is Prague), and... of course... UC Berkeley |
| Favorite Movies | American History X, Revolutionary Road, Rules of the Game, Requiem for a Dream, Kill Bill (both volumes), The Fall, American Beauty, Adam, When Harry Met Sally, Stay, Brick, Choke and anything Disney |
| Favorite Music | folk, alternative (whatever that really means), hip-hop, trip-hop, electronic (drum and bass, dubstep, and house), soundtracks, and nature |
| Favorite Books | The Sun Also Rises, House of Leaves, A Clockwork Orange, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Disappointment Artist, Swann's Way, Watchmen, Catch-22, Middlesex, The Country Wife, and pretty much anything by Kurt Vonnegut |
